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Papa Bob
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Writer, husband, father and Papa, Writer of Ramblings of a Retired Mind
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"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden."

Plato (427-346 B.C.), Greek philosopher
“Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship.”

Epicurus (341–270 BC), “Sovereign Maxims”
Je N'ai Pas Voté Pour lui
“The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.”

Arthur Schopenhauer
“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”

Smedley Butler
"The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it."

William James
"I move around a lot, not because I’m looking for anything really, but because I’m getting away from the things that get bad if I stay."

Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson), from Five Easy Pieces
“There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.”

Isaac Asimov
“Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose”

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr.
“We are not provided with wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can take for us, an effort which no one can spare us.”

Marcel Proust
"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

Mark Twain
“That’s what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”

Simone de Beauvoir
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“You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.”

— Rabindranath Tagore
“Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice.”

Aldous Huxley
“He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.”

George Bernard Shaw
“Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please.”

Pythagoras
Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water; after enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.

Zen proverb
“In the mountains of truth you will never climb in vain: either you will get up higher today or you will exercise your strength so as to be able to get up higher tomorrow.”

Friedrich Nietzsche
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”

Voltaire
“The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.”

René Descartes